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I link Kyle Whitmire's pieces here from time to time. John Archibald is the other reason to read Al.com.



Alabama family, Rhodes scholar, found American Dream. And then this happened

https://www.al.com/news/2023/09/ala...nd-american-dream-and-then-this-happened.html

 

I’m sure Utah will now elect a maga trumplican. Another sane adult leaving the party.

I disagree with Romney on just about everything. But looking back I definitely regret a lot of the vitriol sent his way in 2012. He’d likely been Ok as president.

Will the party ever nominate someone like him again? It seems impossible.

 

I don't even acknowdedge this filth

One the other day tried to get me going on 'fake news' - I didn't stop for a beat. He appeared momentarily stunned that no one would listen to his bullshit.

 

Even for Fatfuck, that's a vomitous pile of gibberish word salad.

 

The candidate filing period in most states is still several months away. Even though Trump is obviously running for president, until he actually files to run for president, it will be hard for anyone or any entity to establish standing to challenge his candidacy. That's a big part of why the groups pursuing this line of reasoning worked hard to get cases heard challenging candidates in the 2022 mid-terms. It did two things: 1) Helped create a road map for how these challenges should proceed and 2) Started building a record - particularly the ones that reached an appellate court creating precedent - so that a challenge to Trump's candidacy is not relying entirely on case law from the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Once he has to start meeting filing deadlines, I think you'll see these challenges filed in dozens of states. I fully expect one here, where the challenge to Madison Cawthorn's candidacy helped create useful caselaw after a federal district court judge (who happens to have been one of my ConLaw professors) issued a bizarre ruling about the Amnesty Act of 1872 prospectively forgiving any future insurrectionists. The decision was reversed at the Fourth Circuit and then the case became moot when Cawthorn lost the primary. But it still gives good precedent to cut off that line of argument about the Amnesty Act.

I think a lot of these groups working on the 14th Amendment challenges would've already filed if they could. But they'll almost all start out either at a state or local elections board as a candidate eligibility challenge or some sort of state court action seeking declaratory relief - at which point the Trump campaign will likely try to move them to federal court, either through the removal process or by filing their own federal lawsuits. Because they'll initially arise under state law related to candidate challenges, there will be a ton of variance and in most places there's no way to start until the candidate files. I believe Nevada is the only state that has an open filing period at the moment. New Hampshire's filing period is next month.

If any of these challenges are successful - and I think some of them should be - it will create chaos in the 2024 election and the Supreme Court will almost certainly have to fast-track a 14th Amendment case.

 

Romney dishes the dirt on his Senate colleagues. I hope the whole book is like this.

What Mitt Romney Saw in the Senate

 

Was just going to post. The Mitch stuff is withering.

 

On brief personal encounters with Romney, I can testify that there's a strong streak of DGAF inside his otherwise utterly conventional soul. He must really want to let that freak flag fly to let this stuff go public well before he leaves the Senate (Jan. 6, 2025). He wants his colleagues to know he thinks they suck.

 

Ruh-roh

Trump must review classified documents case evidence in secure location, judge says